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15th June 2020 Term 2 Week 8

Trundle Central School Newsletter A school that provides a

professional, stimulating and challenging learning

environment

Principal Mr John Southon

Head Teacher Secondary Mr Gerry Capell

Assistant Principal Mrs Fiona Sanderson

Reminders

This Week:

Wednesday 17th June

Yr 11 Hospitality day

@ Peak Hill

Thursday 18th June

Yr 11 Construction

day @ Trundle

Friday 19th June

Harmony Day

Next Week:

Wednesday 24th June

Yr 12 Hospitality day @ Peak Hill

Tuesday

21st July

School Photos

P&C President

Vacant

Secretary Vacant

Treasurer Vacant

Last Wednesday K-6 students were lucky enough to have Tanya Riach,

a stem.T4L Leader to work with them on a variety of projects. Year 5/6 designed,

built and coded a vehicle using the wedo Lego 2.0.

More photos

in Primary

section.

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.trundle-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/


Term 2 Week 8

Principal’s

Message

Last week we welcomed Ryder Alvey into Year 3.

This week we welcome back Terry and Micheal

Ede. Hopefully this is the start of many new

enrolments helping to reduce the impact of

possible job losses across the school in 2021. This

school was at 127 students only two years ago, so I

am confident with improved agricultural seasons

we can return to those numbers. Hopefully, the

department will look at the link between the

agricultural conditions and school numbers and

maintain staff rather than short term reductions.

The mine at Fifield that was either going to save us

creating a rental boom or create a traffic

apocalypse, seems to have gone remarkably quiet.

It appears to, yet again, been put in the too hard

basket because of ore prices, water supply, finance

or whatever. The sad truth is, this town relies of

three main sources of income: farming,

government workers and welfare. Welfare seems

to be flowing in abundance thanks to COVID-19

but farming and government workers are under

threat. This reduces numbers in schools short

term but when conditions pick up, quality staff are

hard to recruit. A very difficult situation for the people up the chain responsible for staffing

decisions. I realise stating the obvious that this

town struggles to support two schools, gains me

looks of disgust from many long term residents but

a town of 380 people with two schools is, if we are

rational rather than emotional, an unsustainable

situation.

COVID-19 restrictions on schools continue as part

of the new-normal of school operations. The

enhanced hygiene measures are likely to continue

until a vaccination or cure is found. Our students

have been as usual consistent and compliant with

all additional requests. Indeed, some students have

been washing their hands so much they have

developed dry skin and soreness. Please apply

some cream and a generous amount of praise to

your children for following these tight restrictions.

COVID-19 the mini-series, has caused the

cancellation of numerous events in this school. This

has the dual effect of robbing children of

opportunity but it also increases the stress on

some students. For example, when I was at school

I could tolerate Mrs O’Connor teaching Narrative

poetry (do not worry I still have no idea what it is

as well) because in Week 5 there would have been

an athletics carnival or a football trip. This broke

up the term and allowed a degree of tension to be

released.

Restrictions are gradually being reduced. In Term

3, excursions, inter-school visits, external

providers such as SRE will be allowed with increased hygiene measures. I have asked staff to

take every opportunity to get our children out of

Trundle for sport and other cultural activities next

term. A change of environment stimulates the

brain and allows children to learn through

experience to be immersed in environmental

stimulus.

Pasi Sahlberg is a research director of the Gonski

Institute for Educational Research which is part of

UNSW Sydney. Professor Sahlberg is a respected

educational researcher who is asked to consult the

educational systems across the world. He has

stated that students after the COVID-19 lockdown

should be given more brain breaks and stressed

the importance of activities such as music and art.

This is against the view of some educational

commentators who want intensive Literacy and

Numeracy instruction. Again when delivering a

wedding cake to a colourful Sydney crime boss’

daughter, balance is the answer.

The school will report on your child’s semester

one progress in Week 2, next term. This is well

ahead of the Week 6 deadline set by the

Department. This will allow for a more

comprehensive Semester 2 report. This is the plan

at this stage. However, at the start of the year we

did not suspect bushfires, COVID-19 lockdowns

and millions of people to be out of work, so plans could change. It may be an idea to put up the

Christmas tree and call off the rest of 2020 as it

has been a shocker.




Term 2 Week 8

In Sunday’s Telegraph newspaper which is usually a

fountain of educational research and quality

literature was an article on public schools. NSW

public schools are some of the most judged and

commented upon schools in the world. Also,

negatives sell news, not the millions of positive

things that occur in schools each day. In one

paragraph, Mark Scott who is the head of the

Department of Education was quoted in saying that

schools need to offer a greater range of

vocationally based subjects for those students who

are not wanting to sit the HSC but would prefer a

trade based pathway. Those people that regularly

read this newsletter would realise that I have been

stating the same thing for at least 6 years. The Department is getting me way too cheap. The

reduction in the status given to the trades and this

false perception that the HSC is the only exit

credential for school is disgraceful, naive and

dangerous in my opinion.

The protest movement that started in America has

spread across the world. Almost faster than

COVID-19. Some children are asking about why

people are protesting despite the danger of

COVID-19 infection. I suspect the reasons are

varied and complex but one thing I cannot explain

to children is the defacing of statues and

monuments. Spray painting a statue does not

change the thought process and actions of the past

or establish a platform for reform in the future, so

to me it is meaningless destruction. This is the only

way I can describe it to senior students. An

Aboriginal politician was on ABC today and I think

expressed an opinion beautifully. These figures that

are being defaced and labelled racist were living in

a different time, but are part of history. Why not

create monuments to people in Aboriginal history

that were significant in culture and bringing about

reform. Such as those people that were involved in

The Uluru Statement. I could not agree more.

John Southon

Principal

Welcome to our new students: Micheal, Terry and

Ryder.

Thank you to Mr Grady and Ella for putting up our

new ‘Let’s Celebrate Attendance’ banner.




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Term 2 Week 8

Reminder from the office:

Guitar Fees are now due. Please pay

online or at the front office at your

earliest convenience.

Thank you.




Term 2 Week 8

Ajax’s

Weekly Woof

Woof Woof Awards: 500 happy woofs to primary. The preparation for

your virtual assembly looks amazing. A virtual

assembly is not the best, but it is the world we are

living in at the moment. I even have to face time my

girlfriend. It is not the same as gazing into her eyes

and smelling the Pal on her breath. Chasing my tail

is not as good as chasing hers. It is hard when she

lives on a farm with 25 of her brothers and sisters.

500 happy woofs to students for not feeding me.

Southo said I would need a reversing buzzer on my

backside if I put on more weight. Note, perfect

birthday present for the old cranky guy, a mirror!

500 happy woofs to Trundle Services club for

having the courage to conduct a community survey.

The town owns the club and should have a say. Well done!

5000 happy barks to all the boys who are polite

and respectful around women. You boys obviously

have realised that women really run the world. For

those of you that are not, Southo is on the war

path as it is his pet hate, other than Manly. Get

over the 1978 grand final. It was a long time ago.

5000 happy barks to those members of the

community that positively promote our town.

Survival is not only a show on television it is

something proactive innovative towns do. Public

education, imagine a Labrador understanding

proactive and innovative.

5001 to Mr Mark Scott, boss of the Education

department. Finally vocational subjects and

developing students with skills for employment in

the trades is becoming important again. We need

doctors and lawyers, but they usually do a crap job

of fixing your car. All skills are important.

500 angry growls to those people who have stopped dropping in and checking on people since

Senior Constable Budd has been on duty in

Trundle. He tries but even he cannot get around to

check on all the people for that 5 minute drop in.

In the Sunday paper public education got another

bashing. It is easy to criticise schools because they

cannot fight back. It seems funny that when the

COVID-19 nightmare was in full force the opening

of schools were vitally important for the nation.

Public schools also are transparent without a team

of old boy lawyers for the cover up when

something happens.

Bark with laughter with

Ajax:

Why didn’t the dog want to play football?

He was a boxer!




Primary

Term 2 Week 8

Students of the Week K/1/2 - Izack Bolam

3/4 - Cooper Charlton-Little

5/6 - Tyrone Kirk

Mrs Sanderson - Callum Deaman

Sportspersons - MacKenzie Smith, Shaniqua Money, Alex Stevenson, Ryder Alvey.

We have some fabulous events coming up over the

next few weeks so stay tuned……

Simultaneous Storytime

Last week the students participated in the

Simultaneous Storytime in their classrooms. We

postponed this event from its original date as it was

the student’s first full week back at school. Over

the week the students participated in classroom activities based around the story ‘Whitney and

Britney Chicken Divas’.

Harmony Day

Harmony Day is usually

celebrated on March 21st.

Unfortunately, this date was the

beginnings of uncertain times

and many events were either

postponed or cancelled.

Now more than ever, an understanding of inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for

everyone is a vital.

This year the students from K-6 will participate in a

walkathon. The student will walk laps of the oval

with a partner, stopping at the end of each lap,

changing walking partners and using this lap to

initiate conversation around the concepts of

inclusivity, respect for themselves and each other

and kindness towards peers. The goal of our

walkathon is not to raise money but awareness.

Harmony day is usually represented by the colour

of orange but for our Trundle Central School

Harmony day the students will be asked wear

bright colours. They can come in as many colours

as they can possible add to an outfit, remembering

that their outfit needs to be practical as they will be

walking on the oval. We will be following the social

distancing guidelines during this fun activity.

Date: Friday 19th June 2020

Clothing: joggers, colourful clothing, a

wide brimmed hat

Bring: drinks of water, extra fruit

for a fruit break energy stop.

Friday Sport Please ensure that your child has a hat and a water

bottle for sport on Fridays.




Primary

Term 2 Week 8

Kinder/1/2 class working on fine motor skills during

Simultaneous storytime activities.

Continued from the front page.

Year 3/4 putting their computer skills to the

test during Technology on every Wednesday

afternoon with Miss Ranger. Last week they

were working out how old they would be on

another planet using spreadsheets.




Term 2 Week 8

Secondary

Secondary Sportspersons of the Week Noah Wilson, Jim Ramsay, Jake Callow and Lionel

Hartig

Year 8 Science learning about unbalanced forces

by creating a ‘wonky tower’ from straws.

Electrostatic forces

were tested on hair of

Jim Ramsay with a

balloon.

Congratulations to the following students who have received the correct amount of pink slips to move

to a higher level. All students start at Level 3 each semester. Each level has rewards with Level 6

being the highest.

Level 6 (75+ pink slips)

Level 5c (60+ pink

slips)

Level 5b (45+ pink

slips)

Level 5a (30+ pink

slips)

Year 7 – Cooper, Ella, Max, Nick

Year 8 – Charlie, Maggie, Hannah, Paddy

Year 9 – Ryan Harrison, Grace, Alex, Aliethea

Year 10 – Will C, Lionel, Will L

Year 11 – Hamish, Jaxson

Year 12 – Ella, Monique, Robert, Willa, Ryan

Level 4 (15+ pink slips) Year 7 – Alice, Kayden, Corey, Dani, Jack, Daniel, Narella, Noah

Year 8 – Harry, Sam, Zac, Jason, Blair, Jim, Kiera, Brad

Year 9 – Xander, Mya, Casey, Jordan

Year 10 – Jennet, Jamie, Aidan, Jason, William

Year 11 – Anthony, Matt, Dylan, Nick

Year 12 – Codie

Secondary Welfare Levels

Year 12 Modern History class working

together on a mind-map describing civilian

experiences in Asia under Japanese occupation

during World War 2.




Term 2 Week 8

Secondary

Alternate Curriculum Fostering Skills




Term 2 Week 8

Year 9/10 students Star Reading

Secondary incorporated Star Reading Program into their English classes which entails reading a book

of their choice for 20 minutes in each English class. All students were tested and placed in their reading

levels. After finishing the book, each student has to complete an online quiz to demonstrate the

understanding of the book. The aim of the program is to improve reading skills and consequently

enhance writing skills as a part of the 2020 School Plan.

Lionel using e-Pen for Star Reading Program.




Term 2 Week 8

9/10 Agriculture Year 9/10 Ag finished sowing the crop, trialling

different sowing crops, including wheat, oats,

barley, vetch, canola and field pea.

Students also pruned the olive trees which are

growing near the Ag shed.

9/10 Industrial Technology Year 9 students are getting closer to finishing

the tool boxes they have been working on this

term. Students had to plan, and produce a toolbox

using the magna bend and spot welder.

Year 10 students are busy welding their final

pieces onto their motorbike stands.




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from our Library

BOOK CLUB IS BACK !

Reminder – orders due 17th JUNE 2020

Have a great Week 8 - Library Staff � �

Term 2 Week 8:

THE EXCITING REVAMP of our Library continues with freshly painted front counters

and bright coloured display. Let us know what you think.

Watch this space for more updates in the coming weeks.




Community

Term 2 Week 8

Trundle Services & Citizens Club Survey

The Trundle Services & Citizens Club Board are conducting a survey of

members and patrons to help

with future planning for the Club, when operations can return to (new)

normal.

Surveys will be posted to all members in the coming days.

Non-members are also welcome to participate.

You can pick up a survey from the Services Club or Trundle Butchers Brew Café.

Alternatively, you can complete a digital version of the survey via the link on the Club’s Facebook page

Trundle Sports Award Nomination

Each month we ask for nominations for the Trundle Sports Awards. Name/Group: Sport/Activity:

Why (just a few words): Awards will be presented at the Australia Day Event in January. To nominate or keep up to-date on Trundle Sports Council information email [email protected] or contact Adam Hall, Danielle Ward or Briony Ferguson. We will be posting information about upcoming meetings and nominations to the Trundle Boomers Rugby League Club Facebook page and via email.

TCS Uniforms for sale

$5 per item

Jackets $15

Assorted sizes

Contact Elizabeth on 0410 497 249





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